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The ones who park their big gymbag on a machine and feel that gives them proprietary rights over the machine even when they go away for 10-15 minutes to do whatever it is that is not actually using the machine. Training shoulders on a squat machine. Taking half an hour to do 5 sets. Dropping an ez curl bar hard on the safety arms after doing a set of barbell curls with the incredible weight of maybe 40 lbs top. Barbell curls on the only available squat rack. Barking like a dog in between sets. Putting like 700 lbs on the bar knowing that you can't squat it just to be able to lift tye bar an inch of tue hooks so your buddy can video tape you. I can go on and on but I will stop for now.
This pisses me off because it's the gym regulars who will keep doing this, knowing full-well it's not where you're supposed to do curls. The people at my gym only do it because the squat rack is in the middle of the room and they just want people to look at them. Freaking attention-seekers.
I start progressively being annoyed with a "runner". There's a guy at my gym that sets about 5 work stations, weights and machines, all over the LARGE gym, "stakes" them with bottle of water or towel or what not - and then runs between them as he "works out".
For me if a person abandons a piece of equipment I'll use it, even if someone has left their "stake". I may even let them work in.
Tbh, the entire Gym is annoying, but unfortunately, I don't have all the necessary equipment at home.
This.
The gym is a necessary evil. So we pay money for the privilege of ancient equipment, inadequate ventilation, poor layout, teeny showers with no water pressure ... and all the people-related annoyances already listed. But still we go. The benefits outweigh the irritations.
Slamming the **** out of the weights on their last rep. It's loud, disrupting and displeasing. The extra grunt afterwards doesn't make me think any more of you btw.
Just do your dam sets and get off, and let me do the same. Max three sets, so as not to hog a station. I don't want to spend extra time waiting around for you to do your sets while "working in". So damn annoying.
I have zero problems with letting people working in and always ask to work in if I need to use a certain piece of equipment that someone else is using, I really see nothing wrong with it, after all, when you're done with one set you have to rest, what is the problem with letting someone else do their set while you rest? If you hog a piece of equipment you're the annoying selfish guy.
The gym is a necessary evil. So we pay money for the privilege of ancient equipment, inadequate ventilation, poor layout, teeny showers with no water pressure ... and all the people-related annoyances already listed. But still we go. The benefits outweigh the irritations.
Definitely. I have a ghetto set-up at home that suffices, but I make it a point to go to the real gym once/week, so I can't do the stuff I can't do at home.
The gym is a necessary evil. So we pay money for the privilege of ancient equipment, inadequate ventilation, poor layout .
I see all of those as positive features. I love those small gritty, soapbox gyms. One of my favorites that I have ever been to was the San Marcos Athletic Club in San Marcos, Texas. Tiny, cramped, minimal air flow, the rust on the equipment makes you contemplate when you last had a tetanus shot, completely no frills environment and I had some of the best workouts of my life there. I don't do well at all with the country club style resort gyms.
I see all of those as positive features. I love those small gritty, soapbox gyms. One of my favorites that I have ever been to was the San Marcos Athletic Club in San Marcos, Texas. Tiny, cramped, minimal air flow, the rust on the equipment makes you contemplate when you last had a tetanus shot, completely no frills environment and I had some of the best workouts of my life there. I don't do well at all with the country club style resort gyms.
Slamming the **** out of the weights on their last rep. It's loud, disrupting and displeasing. The extra grunt afterwards doesn't make me think any more of you btw.
Had a guy doing that on the lat pulldown machine this week. He was even smiling while doing it. On one set he had already dropped the weight and was still grunting. Funniest slip-up I've seen in a while. Attention-seekers are the worst.
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Funniest slip-up I've seen in a while. Attention-seekers are the worst.
